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#71
Introduction / Hello Penguins
Last post by SYMC-Multimedia - January 31, 2025, 06:14:23 PMHi. I am Douglas Brown, a member of Sandhurst & Yateley Methodist Church (SYMC). I lead a team of four in providing a multimedia service to our church and (on occasion) the wider community.
I have set up this forum username 'SYMC-Multimedia' so that anyone in my team can take over leadership from me. At my age 71, the proverbial bus gets ever nearer!
There are currently four of us in the team, but I suspect that (for the time being) I will be only one to use this forum account. Until someone else needs to take over.
Apart from myself, the rest of the team are fairly new to penguin-land. Conversion was forced upon us by the forthcoming update of Windows 10 -> 11, and the fact that our church laptop is seven years old. The upgrade cost (including a new laptop) seemed prohibitive. Rather than face Church Council, cap in hand, I proposed to the team that we switch to Linux. (Gottta love 'free forever'.)
I picked Sparky Linux because:
Well done Pavroo & any other developers!
Once our Linux trial is over and the team is committed to using Linux, I'll reformat the proper church laptop, install Linux on that, and retire this creaky old kit once more. But I think we'll continue using Sparky, for continuity & familiarity. If the team knows it and it works, why change a winning formula?
On that day, I expect Sparky will be even quicker on the proper laptop (even though 'only' seven years old).
Anyway, that's me and that's us. See you around in the other forums. (emoji: waving hand)
I have set up this forum username 'SYMC-Multimedia' so that anyone in my team can take over leadership from me. At my age 71, the proverbial bus gets ever nearer!
There are currently four of us in the team, but I suspect that (for the time being) I will be only one to use this forum account. Until someone else needs to take over.
Apart from myself, the rest of the team are fairly new to penguin-land. Conversion was forced upon us by the forthcoming update of Windows 10 -> 11, and the fact that our church laptop is seven years old. The upgrade cost (including a new laptop) seemed prohibitive. Rather than face Church Council, cap in hand, I proposed to the team that we switch to Linux. (Gottta love 'free forever'.)
I picked Sparky Linux because:
- I am not prepared (yet) to reformat the proper church laptop HD.
- The spare laptop (my mother's, RIP) is an ANCIENT Dell Ispiron 15
- Accordingly, I needed a REALLY small fast & lightweight distro on which to run a browser, Libre Office, and OpenLP (church service projection software).
- Of all the qualifying distros I tried, Sparky worked the best on this old steam powered laptop.
Well done Pavroo & any other developers!
Once our Linux trial is over and the team is committed to using Linux, I'll reformat the proper church laptop, install Linux on that, and retire this creaky old kit once more. But I think we'll continue using Sparky, for continuity & familiarity. If the team knows it and it works, why change a winning formula?
On that day, I expect Sparky will be even quicker on the proper laptop (even though 'only' seven years old).
Anyway, that's me and that's us. See you around in the other forums. (emoji: waving hand)
#72
Sparky applications / Re: Sparky-obmenu fails to be ...
Last post by pavroo - January 31, 2025, 01:07:46 AMsparky-obmenu is not in use anymore, install sparky-obmenu-rescue only.
#73
Sparky applications / Sparky-obmenu fails to be inst...
Last post by lobaluna - January 30, 2025, 10:52:35 PMHi, everyone. I'm back to Sparky and very happy to try and see so many great changes!
I have this problem. What should I do? My apt is up-to-date.
I am in Sparky Trixie Seven-Sisters with LXQt Desktop.
--->>> By the way, the text in dialog "About SparkyLinux" MUST be copiable, so we can insert it here for support purposes.
I have this problem. What should I do? My apt is up-to-date.
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$ sudo apt install sparky-obmenu sparky-obmenu-rescue
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
Unsatisfied dependencies:
sparky-obmenu : Depends: obmenu but it is not installable
Error: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I am in Sparky Trixie Seven-Sisters with LXQt Desktop.
--->>> By the way, the text in dialog "About SparkyLinux" MUST be copiable, so we can insert it here for support purposes.
#74
Applications / Re: Install Freecad and can no...
Last post by pawr - January 23, 2025, 07:27:50 PMHow did you get freecad? from the project site or via debian repos?
Any way, there is NO sparky "testing" repos; use sparky named repos "sisters" instead.
Any way, there is NO sparky "testing" repos; use sparky named repos "sisters" instead.
#75
Applications / Install Freecad and can not op...
Last post by ktchan - January 23, 2025, 06:29:34 PMlibshiboken2.cpython-313-x86_64-linux-gnu.so.5.15
error while loading shared libraries
http://sparkylinux.org testing Release does not have a Release file
error while loading shared libraries
http://sparkylinux.org testing Release does not have a Release file
#76
Applications / Re: Krusader/kio does not supp...
Last post by pavroo - January 20, 2025, 11:21:50 PMTry to install just 'kio-extras', it work with qt6 now
#77
Introduction / Re: Hello World!
Last post by pavroo - January 20, 2025, 11:19:42 PMHi,
in the matter of fact, sid = unstable
Sparky is based on stable or testing.
in the matter of fact, sid = unstable
Sparky is based on stable or testing.
#78
Applications / Krusader/kio does not support ...
Last post by Spike_DE - January 20, 2025, 09:58:39 PMHi Sparkys,
installed Sparky only a few days ago. Wanted to try a slim "unstable"-debian-distro with XFCE.
Unfortunately, SFTP is not available as file-protocol in krusader. Following some web-posts, kio-extras5 seems to be needed, but is not shown in the repo. Only V4: Kio-extras, installed 4:24.12.0-2
Is there a way to get krusader working with SFTP? Thunar works quite well with SFTP-connections, but i would like to use some krusader features for file-syncing.
sys-specs:
> 6.12.9-amd64
> PRETTY_NAME="SparkyLinux 8 (Seven-Sisters)"
Thanks for any advice! :)
installed Sparky only a few days ago. Wanted to try a slim "unstable"-debian-distro with XFCE.
Unfortunately, SFTP is not available as file-protocol in krusader. Following some web-posts, kio-extras5 seems to be needed, but is not shown in the repo. Only V4: Kio-extras, installed 4:24.12.0-2
Is there a way to get krusader working with SFTP? Thunar works quite well with SFTP-connections, but i would like to use some krusader features for file-syncing.
sys-specs:
> 6.12.9-amd64
> PRETTY_NAME="SparkyLinux 8 (Seven-Sisters)"
Thanks for any advice! :)
#79
Introduction / Hello World!
Last post by Spike_DE - January 20, 2025, 09:32:20 PMHi,
i'm Lars, using Linux since 1997 :-)
I like fast, lean systems based on debian. Debian is too lame, sid is too bitchy. So I wanted to try unstable ;)
I like it very much so far.
i'm Lars, using Linux since 1997 :-)
I like fast, lean systems based on debian. Debian is too lame, sid is too bitchy. So I wanted to try unstable ;)
I like it very much so far.
#80
o.K. o.K. das war es dann.
Entweder gibt es dieses Forum nicht mehr
oder ich habe was falsch gemacht.
Suche mir nun ne andere Linux Distri--schade!
Entweder gibt es dieses Forum nicht mehr
oder ich habe was falsch gemacht.
Suche mir nun ne andere Linux Distri--schade!